Favorite Industry

[Anonymous]

I chose intermodal because i model the southeastern operations of CSX where intermodal is common.

[AntonioFP45]

I like industries that utilize boxcars and reefers, such as furniture factories and frozen food/juice companies.

[Anonymous]

Intermodal. Big diesels, interesting cars loaded with colourful trailers and containers. A fully-loaded double stack train always looks awesome in any scale!

[vsmith]

My layout serves the two major (and only) industries on the line. The F.U.B.A.R. Gold Mine and the Borracho Distillery.

Ya left out mining ores (gold, silver, copper, etc), and Logging!!!

[Anonymous]

I voted coal, but actually it is the STEEL industry. Lots of trains can be run if you do steel industry modeling.

[Anonymous]

I like em all. I have a thread called "Operation Ideas" that has information supplied by some very knowlegeable folks on how to work these places.

At the moment, I am working on a Domino's Sugar factory at the Baltimore Harbor. Facilities include a ship dock, tank farm etc etc. From there I hope to go thru the Warehouse and Food Ditribution and work my way out of the city to Agricultral and eventually over the hill to the mineral and other railroads for inter change.

It sounds like I need a million square feet of space, i dont. The list that you polled and a few others supplied by readers on this thread will easily make up about 15 or so sidings on a layout. THen you have the yard, mainline branch etc etc etc.

What about Tobacco, Carbon Black, talc, and salts? Possibly flat bed loads of supplies or machinery? A Bottle and Can Plant? A riverside barge dock? It goes on and on.

Good Luck and thank you for a wunnerful thread.
Lee

[Anonymous]

I still remember when stack trains first came out, articulated cars, double stacks, just when Conrail Blue started to get boring I got re-invigorated.

[Anonymous]

QUOTE: Originally posted by oprr

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No one likes oil ahh.[:0]

[Anonymous]

Grain in nebraska and iowa on a fictional mainline.

[Anonymous]

The railroad I'm gonna model, the UP, mainly did, well, everything. Anyway, I voted intermodal.

[Anonymous]

Team Track.

Along with Interchanges, it's the do-everything industry.

[DMNolan]

The steel industry. I am modeling Bethlehem Steel, served by the Lehigh Valley & Reading.

[BNSFNUT]

I voted for grain but also have a chemical plant ,bulk transfer track and a flour mill.
I also run cement cars.
BTW did I say that I love covered hoppers.

[Anonymous]

Though I said coal, there's gypsum, timber, fish, iron ore, wine, live stock and gold.
Hence the MESS.
And for good measure Maple Syrup.

[Anonymous]

Texas Toothpicks [:D] One of my other hobbies is woodworking so I have put a saw mill, lumber co. and furniture mfg.

[Mikeygaw]

it all depends on what mood i'm in when i'm modelling

[IRONROOSTER]

I'm planning a waterfront with a cannery.
Enjoy
Paul

[Anonymous]

Paper and Power plants for that was what I spent my working life designing and putting in service.

[Anonymous]

I voted other, since he left out Dockwork (an industry in itself)

jay

[AggroJones]

I voted fruit.
Even though a string of black hoppers plodding along with a Mallet is awsome, a reefer block is more intesting. Nothing compares to a long strip of PFE and ATSF reefers. Transportion of fruit makes for intresting railroading. They are literally the coolest cars. [8D]

[EL PARRo]

I like logging, even though my favorite railroad is UP.

[michaelstevens]

So does the "Wye Valley Junction" (run on coal) -- at least on BR nights.
On US nights, my only steamer (a GS4) is an oil burner (Oh the naivete' of a rookie) -- but I do have a triple headed BN - 50 car coal train.

Give 'em hell Fergus !

[Anonymous]

The M.E.S.S. runs on Coal!

[Anonymous]

Ya gotta love an old, rusty, Iron industry

[CBQ_Guy]

I couldn't narrow it down to just one because I like most of them and will try to fit many on the layout. I'm modeling the Midwest in the 1960's, specifically rural north-central Illinois.

Of course I will have the almost obligatory Illinois coal mine, as well as a gravel quarry, and it goes almost without saying that the grain industry will be WELL represented. I am also tentatively planning on a brewery or soft drink plant, a chemical plant, a snack or pet food plant, as well as various small town fuel dealers and agricultural facilities on the branch. There will also be a relatively large stock pens/slaughterhouse/by-product facility as well a good sized appliance manufacturing complex., and a tank farm fuel storage facility in one corner. Also, a good sized building flat representing a grocery chain distribution warehouse, as well as various smaller, rail served customers in the "warehouse district" just to the east of the yard and Burlington freight house.

On the other hand, specifically there will be NO auto, ore, paper, or the very popular but of no interest to me whatsoever, steel industry, other than metal which will go to the appliance complex and to the Helmer boiler and manufacturing plant, named in honor of my great grandfather who was a stationary engineer.

I had planned to have a good sized TOFC/COFC facility initially, but I just can't fit it. As a compromise I have been able to snag a back track in Westcott yard for mainly TOFC circus loading, and the occassional container loaded/unloaded by the special forklift type machine which I bought from Walthers a few years ago.

Other industries to be sure, but the above addresses mainly those which were indicated in the poll.

Happy Holidays, all!

[michaelstevens]

I voted "Coal".
As a kid on the GWR mainline (near Swindon) I was always just as fascinated by a 28XX and 50 loads -- as I was by the 80 mph Bristolian. For one thing the 15 mph coal train provided a much longer experience !
Then when I lived in St. Paul Mn., I took a 2 week driving/camping vacation, just to watch (and listen to) the BN and CNW drags pulling up out of the Powder River Basin.

[Hawks05]

i picked grain. i think thats what i'm going to have on my layout. a grain elevator, Breweing company, and then something that hauls boxes or something. not sure. i know for sure though that i'm going to have a grain elevator. maybe a coal industry to.

[Anonymous]

You left out logging - my favorite.

[Anonymous]

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